34 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



second near its end, third at one-fourth beyond and extending to apex, fourth and 

 fifth at three-fourths beyond ; upper discocellular short inwardly oblique, waved, 

 lower discocellular outwardly oblique and slightly concave, upper radial from close to 

 subcostal, lower radial from near end of upper discocellular ; upper median branch 

 from end of the cell, middle branch from immediately below its end, submedian 

 slightly recurved : hindwing bluntly oval, costa slightly arched in male, straight in 

 female, exterior margin very convex, more or less even ; cell closed by a slender 

 oblique discocellular vein, other veins as in Buthalia. Body robust. 



LOPHLA EVELINA (Plate 17, Fig. 1, la). 

 Papilio Evelina, Stoll, Suppl. Cramer's Pap. Exot. pi. 28, f. 2, 2b (1791), i . 



Male and female. TJpperside senescent sap-green ; both wings with a transverse 

 discal dusky lunular fascia, and a less distinct marginal fascia : f orewing with two 

 discoidal black-lined marks, the upper part of the inner one centred with vermillion : 

 hindwing with one black-lined mark. Underside greenish-grey, with dull sap-green 

 transverse discal and a confluent double marginal fascia : forewing with discoidal 

 marks as above : hindwing with two discoidal marks, and two rings above them, 

 both of which and the inner discoidal are centred with vermillion. 



Expanse, ^ 3, 2 4 inches. 



" Occurs in the eastern and western provinces in low country forests in June. 

 Flight rapid, along forest-paths, settling in thick parts of trees and sometimes on the 

 ground. Shy " {Hutchison). 



Rather common in the Kottawa forest, but difficult to capture. {Wade.) 



Genus SYMPH^DRA. 



Symphcedra, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 39 (1816); Westwood, Diurnal Lep. p. 294. 

 Adolias, Sect. x. Felder, Neues Lep. p. 35 (1861). 



Wings short : forewing triangular, costa slightly arched, exterior margin short 

 slightly scalloped, posterior margin straight ; first and second subcostal branches 

 emitted before end of the cell, third at one-fifth beyond, fourth and fifth at two-thirds 

 beyond ; discocellular very short convexly angular, the radials from the angles ; cell 

 open, short, broad ; lower median branch opposite discocellular, the two upper at 

 some distance beyond, submedian straight : hindwing broadly oval, exterior margin 

 very convex, scalloped, abdominal margin short; veins similar to Euthalia. Body 

 small, palpi porrect, somewhat pilose, legs squamose, antenna of moderate length, 

 stout. 



